Ned Beatty Quotes
I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.
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I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
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Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
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I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
